11. Having heard something, the fool goes into labor,like a woman giving birth to a child.
12. Like an arrow stuck in a fool’s thigh,so is gossip in the belly of a fool.
13. Admonish your friend—he may not have done it;and if he did, that he may not do it again.
14. Admonish your neighbor—he may not have said it;and if he did, that he may not say it again.
15. Admonish your friend—often it may be slander;do not believe every story.
16. Then, too, a person can slip and not mean it;who has not sinned with his tongue?
17. Admonish your neighbor before you break with him;and give due place to the Law of the Most High.
20. All wisdom is fear of the Lord;and in all wisdom, the observance of the Law.
22. The knowledge of wickedness is not wisdom,nor is there prudence in the counsel of sinners.
23. There is a shrewdness that is detestable,while the fool may be free from sin.
24. Better are the God-fearing who have little understandingthan those of great intelligence who violate the Law.
25. There is a shrewdness keen but dishonest,and there are those who are duplicitous to win a judgment.
26. There is the villain bowed in grief,but full of deceit within.